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>REASSIGN OWNED</H1
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><H2
>Name</H2
>REASSIGN OWNED&nbsp;--&nbsp;change the ownership of database objects owned by a database role</DIV
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>Synopsis</H2
><PRE
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>REASSIGN OWNED BY <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>old_role</I
></TT
> [, ...] TO <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>new_role</I
></TT
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>Description</H2
><P
>   <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>REASSIGN OWNED</TT
> instructs the system to change
   the ownership of the database objects owned by one of the
   old_roles, to new_role.
  </P
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>Parameters</H2
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><TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>old_role</I
></TT
></DT
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><P
>      The name of a role. The ownership of all the objects in the
      current database owned by this role will be reassigned to
      <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>new_role</I
></TT
>.
     </P
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><TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>new_role</I
></TT
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><DD
><P
>      The name of the role that will be made the new owner of the
      affected objects.
     </P
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><H2
>Notes</H2
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>   <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>REASSIGN OWNED</TT
> is often used to prepare for the
   removal of one or more roles. Because <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>REASSIGN
   OWNED</TT
> only affects the objects in the current database,
   it is usually necessary to execute this command in each database
   that contains objects owned by a role that is to be removed.
  </P
><P
>   <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>REASSIGN OWNED</TT
> requires privileges on both the
   source role(s) and the target role.
  </P
><P
>   The <A
HREF="sql-drop-owned.html"
>DROP OWNED</A
> command is an alternative that
   drops all the database objects owned by one or more roles. Note
   also that <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>DROP OWNED</TT
> requires privileges only
   on the source role(s).
  </P
><P
>   The <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>REASSIGN OWNED</TT
> command does not affect the
   privileges granted to the old_roles in objects that are not owned
   by them.  Use <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>DROP OWNED</TT
> to revoke those
   privileges.
  </P
><P
>   The <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>REASSIGN OWNED</TT
> command does not affect the
   ownership of any databases owned by the role.  Use
   <A
HREF="sql-alterdatabase.html"
>ALTER DATABASE</A
> to reassign that ownership.
  </P
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><H2
>Compatibility</H2
><P
>   The <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>REASSIGN OWNED</TT
> statement is a
   <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
> extension.
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><H2
>See Also</H2
><A
HREF="sql-drop-owned.html"
>DROP OWNED</A
>, <A
HREF="sql-droprole.html"
>DROP ROLE</A
>, <A
HREF="sql-alterdatabase.html"
>ALTER DATABASE</A
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